Entertainment venue will open in Stafford center

Updated 9:49 pm, Monday, March 25, 2013

Main Event Entertainment is opening a store Tuesday in The Fountains on the Lake shopping center in Stafford, the company's fourth Houston-area location.

Main Event Entertainment is opening a store Tuesday in The Fountains on the Lake shopping center in Stafford, the company's fourth Houston-area location.

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Entertainment venue will open in Stafford center

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The Fountains on the Lake has scored a major tenant that will bring bowling, laser tag, billiards, video games and dining to the Stafford shopping complex.

Dallas-based Main Event Entertainment is opening its fourth Houston-area location Tuesday in the center at U.S. 59 near South Kirkwood.

The entertainment venue is taking over the space previously occupied by both Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th, which relocated to The Market at Town Center in Sugar Land, and The Room Store. The combined space totals 56,000 square feet.

The new location will employ about 150 people. Other Main Event Entertainment locations are in Shenandoah, Katy and Webster.

The venue will also feature a concept called Gravity, consisting of an indoor ropes course suspended 12 feet above the ground with swaying bridges, narrow beams, and a field of nets and ropes to trek through.

Also in the center, Ross Dress For Less has leased 25,000 square feet for a store planned to open this summer, said Andy Crosland, an executive vice president with Dunhill Partners who handles leasing of the center. The space is between the Guitar Center and Sports Authority.

The 601,589-square-foot center will be 97.5 percent occupied once Main Event and Ross are open, Crosland said.